Crime Is Not the Problem: Lethal Violence in America - Couverture rigide

Zimring, Franklin E.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 019511065X ISBN 13 : 9780195110654

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1997

Synopsis

This work has three main aims: the first is to show that what separates the USA from other countries is not crime rates but lethal violence. Crimes like burglary and theft are a part of modern urban life worldwide, whereas shootings and stabbings are not - they are particularly American. Why is this so? Secondly, the book seeks to clarify the causes of violence by looking at the proximate causes of deadly violence - guns, violence in the media, drugs and the tradition of lethal violence are all examined. The concluding section of the book concerns the prevention of lethal violence as a priority issue. The authors discuss a range of anti-violence alternatives from change in the criminal law to social, physical, and environmental factors and social values and attitudes.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book has three main aims: the first is to show that what separates the USA from other countries is not crime rates but lethal violence. Crimes like burglary and theft are a part of modern urban life worldwide; shootings and stabbings are not - they are particularly American. Why is this so? Secondly , the book seeks to clarify the causes of violence by looking at the proximate causes of deadly violence - guns, violence in the media, drugs and the tradition of lethal violence are all examined. The concluding section of the book concerns the prevention of lethal violence as a priority issue. The authors discuss a range of anti-violence alternatives from change in the criminal law to social and physical environmental factors and social values and attitudes.

Revue de presse

Zimring and Hawkins are not afraid to ask awkward questions and express quite a radical scepticism about current policy directions. (David Smith Labour Campaign for Criminal Justice Newsletter no 49)

This is an extremely useful book that should definitively explode a number of myths about the nature of the crime problem in the USA (David Smith, Labour Campaign for Criminal Justice Newsletter no 49)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 019511065X
• ISBN 13: 9780195110654
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 285
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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